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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (first performed in 1784). The above text from the Wikipedia article "The Marriage of Figaro" text is available under CC BY-SA 3.0.